newsletter.getdx.com, August 5, 2026. Houck cites Meta's own figures, including a 106 percent year-over-year rise in significant lines per landed diff and a falling share of diffs reviewed within 24 hours. He argues that review spreads shared understanding of a codebase, a benefit teams can lose if they automate review purely to keep up with volume. Meta's RADAR system auto-reviews low-risk diffs and routes the rest to people, an attempt to preserve that human learning while shortening the queue.
In the News: September 10, 2026
A 35-hour unattended Astra coding run burned $1,200 and produced nothing usable. Its token-efficient tool-call style also leaked into committed tests.
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A 35-hour unattended coding run produced 75,000 lines and nothing usable
Ronacher gave OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra an unsupervised "software factory" task on his own machine. He stopped it after 35 hours.
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